Every Year.....

10th year for the Snowball Crit - with a small team promoting a race is always a pain but being one of the first, if not the first, races of the years is even more challenging. Just getting the whole permitting process going early season (USAC, City of Va Beach, etc) and all the new riders (read that as tons of emails and phone calls asking pretty basic racing questions). Every year I say this is the last year and every year my wife laughs at me....

So this year things really started looking like a complete train wreck. Forecast calling for cold, wind, rain or possibly even snow. AND Bikereg goes off line early Saturday morning. We'd closed out registration at 9:00 the previous night and my plan had been to download all the rider information following the girls basketball game I coached Saturday morning (yes... I coach a GIRLS basketball team and NO, I'm not as hard on them as you'd think - although after raising 3 boys my daughter is finally the basketball player I never had but that's another post...). So Saturday around 2 I go to get the information off Bikereg and wham, site is down. Several phone calls and emails and I get nothing. Oh, and one of the fairly expensive statues / trophies we'd ordered for the C race was crushed in shipping and I hadn't bothered to open the box until Saturday afternoon.

Well the point of this post is that riders were amazingly understanding - waiting in the cold rain to register and racing in those conditions. We had more people say "thanks" than I've ever recalled during a 75 degree spring race day. I suppose it could be because we all looked so cold and miserable running the race.Either way, I guess Snowball 2010 is on, although I'm considering a new name. The whole "Snowball" thing just seems to jinx us....

Thanks to everyone who showed up....